Re:Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
by hparadiz on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:52PM
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Google did this to me with Adwords. They gave me a "free" $200 to run a test campaign but it never turned off and I was not notified in anyway. They ended up charging me $800 for a completely test campaign for a non product blog website that ended up not even getting any traffic. Very scummy behavior even worse than AWS. It was basically extortion because I would have lost my entire Google account if I disputed the charges with my credit card.
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Re:Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
by LdSGSgvupDV on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:35PM
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This is why I don't like to sign my credit card to any subscription service or anything similar. There is almost no way to delete the credit card, and it is hard to notice the charging before it happened. We should have legislation to make them offer one-shot charging without storing my payment information. Pay as my budget. Shutdown if exceed.
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Doesn't cost anything, can use different bank accounts for funding on a per card basis, configurable limits.
Re:Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
by bradknowles on Saturday December 04, 2021 @02:37PM
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Except they are in the process of changing their bank that they work with, so that they can change the type of cards they issue, and you have until the end of December to change over all your old cards from the old format to the new one, which means changing the card numbers, too.
This is a royal pain in the ass for those of us with hundreds of cards registered through them.
If there was another service of this type that existed, I’d switch to them in a heartbeat. And I will no longer recommend them here.
1: That news popped up here after I posted this.
2: New accounts since around October are already on the new thing.